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The Mother She Chose

Children seldom understand that every family carries its own story.

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There are people who can point to one remarkable moment in their lives and say, "Everything changed there." Carol has never been able to do that.

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There are moments in life when change arrives so completely that there is no path back to the person you were the day before.

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She had spent much of her young life learning how quickly people could disappear.

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There is something merciful about memory.

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On that autumn evening in 1969, something inside her kept insisting that the three young women should not get into that car.

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One of my chores was chopping kindling for the family's wood stove.

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For most of my life, I couldn't understand why I was afraid of water.

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A Life of Survival, Faith, and Family

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